How do our cells detect light and magnetism

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Source: CSIR - Centre For Cellular And Molecular Biology

Nikhil Hajirnis tells us how cells developed strategies to detect light and magnetism with evolution of a class of proteins called the crytochromes. And now we use this understanding to alter magnetic fields around cells to image cells as well as to attempt changing the way they work.